You know you're a grad student when...

• you have difficulty reading anything that doesn't have footnotes.
• you understand jokes about Foucault.
• you consider caffeine to be a major food group.
• you've ever brought *thesis* books with you on vacation and actually read them.
• Saturday nights spent studying no longer seem weird.
• the professor doesn't show up to class and you discuss the readings anyway.
• you appreciate being able to choose which twenty hours out of the day you have to work.
• you still feel guilty about giving students low grades (you'll get over it).
• you can read course books and cook at the same time.
• you schedule events for academic vacations so your friends can come.
• you hope it snows during spring break so you can get more studying in.
• you find yourself citing sources in conversation.
• your office is better decorated than your apartment.
• you are startled to meet people who neither need nor want to read.
• you have ever brought a scholarly article to a bar.
• you rate coffee shops by the availability of outlets for your laptop (by the by, Browser’s sucks for outlets).
• everything reminds you of something in your thesis.
• you have ever discussed academic matters at a sporting event.
• you can tell the time of day by looking at the traffic flow at the library.
• you look forward to summers because you're more productive without the distraction of giggling undergrads.
• you regard ibuprofen as a vitamin (Amen).
• you consider all papers to be works in progress.
• professors don't really care when you turn in work anymore.
• you have given up trying to keep your books organized and are now just trying to keep them all in the same general area.
• you have accepted guilt as an inherent feature of relaxation.
• you find yourself explaining to children that you are in "20th grade".
• you often wonder how long you can live on pasta without getting scurvy.
• you look forward to taking some time off to do laundry.
• you wonder if MLA style allows you to cite talking to yourself as "personal communication".
  

This list is adapted from this website.